"So how do we kill Ianto, the sooner we get to him? We can kill him" Gwen asked. She was getting annoyed with Jason. Ever since he said he needed her help to kill Ianto, Jason had gone quiet. Ignoring all the questions, she asked.

"We need to find him first," Jason said, "After your attempt on his life, Ianto won't be easy to find. The fae hold him in high regard, they will protect him however they won't care about the other members of Torchwood. Who is Ianto closest with?".

"Tosh," Gwen said, "she won't willingly come with us though".

"Then we don't give her the option. We need to lure Tosh out of the fae world and back to Torchwood. Once she left, she won't have the protection of the fae, and we can take her. If Ianto really cares about her, then he will come running, then we can kill him," Jason said smirking. All his hard work was finally falling into place. Once they had Tosh, he was sure Ianto would come to save his precious friend and when he least expecting it Jason will kill him.

Tosh couldn't believe how stupid she had been. It had been three days since Ianto, and Jack bonded and the fae were (still a little reluctantly) working with them to find Gwen and Jason, but so far, they had no such luck. Jason had left no elemental trace when he took Gwen and was limiting the use of his powers to prevent the fae tracking him down or he had somehow discovered a way to block or cover his elemental trace from behind found. Torchwood had gone down a technological approach to finding Gwen since she was in fact stupid and probably wouldn't think to hide her activity and even if she had, Gwen knew nothing about computers to try anything not that she could outsmart Tosh at something Tosh had been doing since she was a young child. And a fae from the 18th century wouldn't be much help since technology wasn't a big thing in the fae world.

The problem was Gwen hadn't returned to Torchwood to retrieve any of her belongings. She left her phone on her desk and Tosh was certain Gwen didn't have a spare (Gwen would have blabbed about it). She also hadn't returned home to Rhys; they were certain about that. She hadn't shown up on the CCTV cameras in her apartment block. It was like she had completely disappeared with no trace. Jack had had the suspicious that they might have disappeared out of the timeline but that idea got quickly shut down, something to do with only the most experienced fae could time travel without the support of the Captain of the Response squad or something like that, anyway. Tosh didn't really understand all these strange fae customs. But that didn't matter now. She knew how to find Gwen, or at least she had an idea on how they could find her.

"I might have figured a way to find Gwen or at least where she might be" Tosh said running into Ianto's house. Ianto, Jack and Owen sat crowded around Ianto's table looking over a map of Cardiff and were plotting the pivotal points throughout the city where someone could hide, drawing no attention to themselves.

"How" Jack asked looking over at his second oldest team member. He had expected for her to have an idea at some point. Tosh was brilliant like that.

"Her car. I can't believe we never thought about it earlier" Tosh said, flopping down in a chair beside Owen and pulled out her PDA.

"What? Wouldn't her car keys still be at Torchwood? Tosh, we already decided that she hadn't returned to Torchwood or anywhere near the hub," Jack asked confused.

"No, they aren't. Remember Gwen got into an accident earlier that week. Her car was at the garage and had to walk to work every day. She used to whine about it whenever she came and left work," Owen said before adding, "You were lucky Harkness, hiding in your office, she wouldn't shut up about it".

"Here. I've hacked the CCTV of the garage she uses," Tosh said, turning her PDA around to show Gwen picking up her car the day after her escape and driving away. "Gwen probably won't remember that we have a tracker on her car, she won't have disabled it. If I can get her licence plate, then I can run it through the tracking software and find out where she or at least her car is. But… I would need to go to the hub. The camera angle doesn't show the plate, but it should be on file. I can't access it here".

"No, it's too dangerous. You wouldn't be safe the second you leave this world. What if they try to take you?" Owen argued. The last thing he was going to allow was for Jason or Gwen to get their filthy hands on his Tosh.

"Tosh, Owen's right. It's not safe. If we try to follow her car using CCTV cameras maybe we can find where they're hiding," Jack said, but Ianto shook his head.

"By the time we've done that, Tosh could have popped to the hub and done it herself" Ianto said, he hated the idea of Tosh leaving the safety of his world but there was so many probabilities of which turns Gwen could have taken, it would take forever to hack into all these different CCTV camera just on the off chance that Gwen went past it.

"We can protect her," another voice said, Ianto turned to look at its owner to find Reiner and Bertholdt standing in his doorway "the court wishes to speak with you. Commander, Immortal One. We have nothing else to do, we can take Ms Sato to your hub and get her back here safely".

"See, I'll be fine," Tosh said mostly to Owen than anyone else "and before you say, you can't come with me. If we get attacked, which is unlikely, but if we do, then it increases the chances of one of us getting caught. It's too dangerous".

"She's in safe hands, Owen" Ianto said as Tosh pressed a kiss to Owen's cheek and left with Reiner and Bertholdt.

The hub was in the same state that they left it in; she couldn't believe that everything had happened in less than a few days. Owen's autopsy equipment scattered around the autopsy bay, mugs piled up in the kitchen sink ready for Ianto to wash them, and Tosh's computer had gone to sleep, but it was still running some calculations she was working on.

"I'm going to check the perimeter; you stay with Toshiko," Bertholdt said before disappearing.

"This shouldn't take long; all I need is to load Gwen's file and get her reg plate" Tosh said as she brought up the tracking software and loaded Gwen's torchwood file. Reiner watched over Tosh's shoulder as she copied Gwen's plate and pasted it into the software.

"I never understood these computers, it's lucky we don't need them as fae," Reiner muttered, glaring at the computer in front of him. It felt like it was taunting him with all these different programmes which he didn't understand.

"What made you decide to become a fae?" Tosh asked, her eyes not leaving her computer.

"I'm originally arcateenian, we're a species which primarily communicate telepathically. I wasn't in the best situation and I heard that a species would take you in if you had suffered abuse, I sort the fae out and asked whether they would turn me into one of them, I didn't care whether I lost my ability to speak telepathically, I just wanted to get away from those who abused me. The fae originally didn't want to have me because I wasn't a chosen one, but the queen made the ultimate decision, because of my situation and that out of countless of species who had tried and failed, I had successfully found them. She decided that I could become a fae. Even though I ended up causing a war, they still accepted me as their own. I never regretted leaving," Reiner explained. He didn't really enjoy thinking about his life before becoming a fae.

"How long have you known Ianto? He hasn't really told us about his life with the fae" Tosh asked. She couldn't help but feel a little curious about what Ianto was like before he joined Torchwood.

"Yeah, he hadn't been a fae awfully long before I joined. He was timid, didn't enjoy talking to anyone. If I remember right, it took a while until he started opening up to others, but I guess it was normal for everyone. We had all been through a lot, it's difficult to let people in" Reiner said. It surprised Tosh, Ianto seemed to be so confident in himself that she couldn't picture him being quiet and timid but she supposed that he would have been like when he first joined Torchwood Three and was hiding Lisa from them, he made himself unnoticeable and drifted off into the background. Tosh wanted to ask more questions, she wanted to find out more, but her computer beeped. The traces had completed.

"I've got it!" Tosh said before frowning. That couldn't be right.

"What's wrong?" Reiner asked worried. He could feel his heart pounding in his chest. Bertholdt was taking far too long for someone who was just checking the perimeter.

"It says Gwen's car is outside the hub" Tosh said looking over at Reiner worried. Reiner opened his mouth, about to say something before he doubled over in the surge of immense pain he felt wash over him from his mateship bond.

"What's wrong?" Tosh asked, worried.

"It's Bertholdt, he's hurt" Reiner said, panic laces his voice. His mate was hurting, they injured his mate. Someone had dared hurt his Bertl. Before either Reiner or Tosh could move, something threw Bertholdt through the cog door with a tall brown-haired man walking in after.

"Jason" Reiner growled charging towards the fae whilst Tosh stumbled over to Bertholdt's unconscious form trying to avoid the battle going on between the two fae. Reiner was trying to keep any elemental blows from coming in their direction, but from what Tosh could see Jason was gaining the upper hand. If they wasted any time, then Reiner would be overpowered, and Tosh wasn't sure what Jason would do to Reiner and Bertholdt if that happened. Probably kill them. He wanted Ianto, and the easiest way to lure him out would be to take someone Ianto cared about. He only needed Tosh, Reiner and Bertholdt were expendable.

"Trying to look for a way to escape Tosh, well I'm sorry but that won't happen. We need you so we can kill Ianto," Gwen said, lunging at Tosh and try to shove a needle in her arm, probably containing some sedatives to knock her out. Tosh threw herself out of the way before swirling back around and knocking Gwen's feet out from underneath her. Gwen collapsed to the ground, dropping the sedative. Tosh didn't waste a second longer, grabbing the needle and slamming it into Gwen's arm before pushing the plunger and emptying the sedative into her system. Gwen screamed, but the sedative was already taking effect and Gwen lay unconscious on the floor.

"Damn, I should have done that months ago," Tosh said to herself before turning back to Bertholdt. She pressed a finger to his wrist before internally cursing herself. She knew nothing about fae biology, was a fae's pulse even in their wrist like it was with humans.

"We need to leave" Reiner said. He was in a right state, his arm was bent showing that it was broken. The bruising on his stomach that Tosh could see from rips in his shirt could be from many causes, that Tosh didn't want to think about at the moment, or she would start panicking.

"Where's Jason?" Tosh asked, she slightly fearing the answer.

"Bailed that second you incapacitated Miss Cooper. And I don't know where he'll be back. We can't risk losing our only source of information. We need to leave right now," Reiner said.

"We can't. You're in no state to move, let along travel" Tosh said, but Reiner shook his head as he walked over to Bertholdt and carefully picked him up. Not caring whether he was doing any more damage to his body.

"We don't have a choice; we need to leave. I can't leave Bertholdt here in this state any longer, he needs proper medical treatment which he can't get here. We're all a mess and Jason could use this to overpower us and take you and maybe Cooper back. We can't waste any more time we need to leave," Reiner ordered, and Tosh nodded. She slowly stood to her feet, grabbing Gwen's leg and held onto Reiner's arm.

"I'm sorry. If we hadn't come here than neither of you would have been hurt," Tosh said. She felt bad. She was the one who pushed to come here, she was the one who let Reiner and Bertholdt follow, and now they were both injured because of her.

"It's not your fault. We agreed to come, and we never expected Jason nor Gwen to show up. Yes, we're injured but we'll be fine, we have Cooper and we know that Jason is stronger than he was a few months ago. Now we know that we can make a plan to stop him" Reiner said, trying to reassure the woman. Tosh sighed; she could see where he was coming from but still she felt bad that because of her need to help that she ended up getting two fully trailed fae injured. I suppose it showed Tosh that even those who knew what they were doing were no match against Jason. Reiner didn't wait for a reply, instead he focused on his elemental powers and they disappeared from the hub once more.

Gwen growled as a fae forced her into a chair and tied her hands and legs to it. She couldn't believe that Jason just abandoned her. She was the most important person on this planet. He was supposed to protect her from these bastard fae, not let them capture her.

"Here sat accused in human Gwen Cooper who had no links to Torchwood Three. Given a dose of truth serum, we will conduct the trial to determine the plan of the accused and her accomplice fae Jason. We have three pivotal questions to ask the accused before sentencing," the queen said, standing on her podium overlooking the court.

"What is yours and Jason's plan?".

"To kill Ianto duh! I want Jack all to myself because we are meant to be together. Ianto was getting in my way, so we have to get rid of him. Jason wants him dead. Not that I care why, it's easier to work together and get rid of the menace then work alone after my attempt failed miserably," Gwen froze. She wasn't meant to admit to all that. She was going to play the victim card. Get all these fae to sympathise which her then let her go. What the hell had they given her?

"It seems like the truth serum is working. Where is Jason now?".

"No idea, that bastard scarpered when Tosh knocked me out," Gwen cursed again. They drugged her, they fucking drugged her.

"Where were you hiding with Jason".

"Some warehouse off the bay. It was hidden out of view, so I doubt you would find it" Gwen smirked, Jason had made sure all his whereabouts were unknown to the fae until he was ready and he could destroy them for siding with that bastard, Ianto.

"I believe that is all we need to know for now. Immortal one is there anything you wish to say to Miss Cooper before we decide her sentencing" the queen asked Jack who he had been sitting beside Tosh and Owen, quietly watching this whole trial play out. He was furious. That Gwen could be so delusional that she believed that he would ever be with her.

"I hope you're happy with yourself, Gwen. Not only have you pissed Torchwood off but a whole species to, you saw what the fae are capable of and yet you still continued down this path. I want to say that I feel sorry for you, but I don't. You stopped meaning anything to me the second you decided it was acceptable to try and kill Ianto. Goodbye Gwen Cooper, I hope everything was worth it" Jack snapped and Gwen froze. He wasn't trying to save her from the fae, Jack hated the fae, he had said so on countless occasions, didn't he love her? No, he did. Ianto's mind control must be strengthen now they were in that bastard's world. Maybe Jack was buying his time, waiting to spring her from jail when no one was looking.

"Oh Captain, my captain. You want to know a secret. Ianto Jones won't be around much longer. After all, he couldn't be bothered to turn up here," Gwen smirked, Jack's head shot to where he saw Ianto only a few moments ago sitting behind Tosh. But that seat was empty. It left only Tosh surrounded by the fae.

"Where's Ianto?" Jack said panicked.

"your majesty, there's a note" a fae said running over to the queen. The queen took the note from his hand. It worried her greatly. Had Jason somehow gotten inside without them noticing, he might have used the distraction of Gwen's trial to grab Ianto when they weren't looking. Or this was the plan all along and Gwen just was a puppet, and a distraction long enough for him to slip in and get out unnoticed.

Jack,

I know you will hate me, but I'm sorry. I had to leave. I need to find and stop Jason. He hurt Reiner and Bertholdt, two fully trained fighters. The longer we leave him, the stronger he will become. I can't risk losing anyone else. So, I need to do this on my own; he threatens our entire world and more than that, he won't stop at nothing until I'm dead. I promise that when I fight him, I will fight for you and our future together, but if he wins. If I die, then I want you to know. I love you, Jack Harkness. I will always love you.

Your Ianto xx

Ianto slipped into the darkness, away from the crowd. Everyone's focus was on Gwen to realise he was missing and by the time they do it will be too late. This was the final straw. He had been so confident that he could rely on his fellow fae to find Jason so he wouldn't have to fight, so he wouldn't have to become that monster again. But Jason went after someone he loved, if it hadn't been for Reiner or Bertholdt then Jason would have taken Tosh. And Ianto didn't dare to think of what either Jason or Gwen would have done to her. Jason would not stop at nothing until he got to Ianto, so he could only do one thing. He would bring the fight to him.

Ianto could feel himself slipping again. Becoming the monster, he tried so hard to fight. But now he knew that they needed it more than ever before if he was going to bring Jason down then he had to let that monster out. He can regret it later. He needed to stop Jason. No matter what. Ianto could feel his heart slowly harden as it took control, stopping the kind-hearted Ianto in his tracks.

Ianto Jones was dead, and the commander was free.